As part of the Kemp Symposium on Friday, April 26, Department of English and Linguistics and Sigma Tau Delta sponsor Professor Gary Richards recently inducted new members into the Sigma Tau Delta honor society, the most prominent national literary honor society that recognizes students’ achievements in literary studies The new inductees are: Zeb L. Armstrong […]
Congratulations to Cosmy Pellis ’22 for receiving an acceptance to the graduate program in creative writing at Dartmouth. While at UMW, Pellis was a staff writer and associate editor with The Weekly Ringer, was part of the Honors program, and completed an individual study, among other activities.
Gary Richards recently attended the 38th annual Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival where, on March 22, he was one of four panelists on “A Truman Capote Reading and Discussion,” organized to mark the writer’s centennial. Other panelists were actor Brenda Currin, socialite Anna Christina “Tina” Radziwill, and novelist Colm Toíbín. On March 23, […]
Eric G. Lorentzen, Professor of English, published “A Wisdom of the Head and a Wisdom of the Heart: Dickens, Disney, and Popular Culture” in the recent “Dickens and His Publics” special issue of Dickens Quarterly. The article examines the two sections of the Fall 2022 course that Lorentzen taught for the first time at UMW, […]
Jonathan Levin is pleased to share that his essay “American Pragmatism: An Essayistic Conception of Truth” appears in The Cambridge History of the American Essay, edited by Christy Wampole and Jason Childs (Cambridge UP, 2024). The essay looks at essays by American pragmatists and literary figures influenced by pragmatism as well as at the relationship […]